_CONDUIT_CONTROLLER variable is immutable, meaning it cannot be reassigned to a different contract after the contract is deployed.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact CONDUITCONTROLLER variable is immutable, meaning it cannot be reassigned to a different contract after the contract is deployed. This may be an issue if the original contract is no longer being maintained or if a different contract is needed for some...

Leading Crypto Exchange Bybit Announces ApeX Pro Integration

By Deeba Ahmed Bybit users will access the ApeX decentralized protocol directly from their Bybit account. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Leading Crypto Exchange Bybit Announces ApeX Pro Integration...

Upgraded Q -> M from #194 [1668467876517]

Judge has assessed an item in Issue 194 as M risk. The relevant finding follows: L-04 Should be a upper-bound on Flash-loan fee There are 1 instances of this issue: File : = Recommended Mitigation There should be a upper bound of Flash-loan fee define in contract so that owner can't able to set f...

Threat Spotlight: Cyber Criminal Adoption of IPFS for Phishing, Malware Campaigns

The InterPlanetary File System IPFS is an emerging Web3 technology that is currently seeing widespread abuse by threat actors. Cisco Talos has observed multiple ongoing campaigns that leverage the IPFS network to host their malware payloads and phishing kit infrastructure while facilitating other...

How Decentralized Apps Shaping the Future of the Internet

By Daily Contributors The internet has drastically changed the way we interact with the world. We can now connect with people… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Decentralized Apps Shaping the Future of the Internet...

How to make decentralized apps: Modern subtleties of development process management

By Owais Sultan Technology is moving towards modernized solutions and is constantly changing. Back in the day, there were web applications.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to make decentralized apps: Modern subtleties of development process management...

World’s Leading Blockchain DeFiChain Announces Adding Four New dTokens

By Waqas Bitcoin network’s most prosperous blockchain DeFiChain is a decentralized proof-of-stake platform created as a hard fork to enable… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: World’s Leading Blockchain DeFiChain Announces Adding Four New dTokens...

How DeFiChain gives DeFi a major boost with innovative decentralized assets

By Owais Sultan In this article, we’ll be exploring the landscape of DeFi, demonstrating how the recent DeFiChain developments are set to innovate the industry as a whole and drive the usability of DeFi. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How DeFiChain gives DeFi a major boo...

Crypto Trading Firm Wintermute Loses $160 Million in Hacking Incident

In what's the latest crypto heist to target the decentralized finance DeFi space, hackers have stolen digital assets worth around $160 million from crypto trading firm Wintermute. The hack involved a series of unauthorized transactions that transferred USD Coin, Binance USD, Tether USD, Wrapped...

CVE-2022-31006

CVE-2022-31006 affects Hyperledger Indy’s indy-node server. In vulnerable versions, an attacker can exhaust the ledger’s allowed client connections, causing a denial of service where the ledger remains functionally operable but unavailable to others until the attack ends. The impact is availabili...

CVE-2022-31006 Hyperledger Indy DOS vulnerability

indy-node is the server portion of Hyperledger Indy, a distributed ledger purpose-built for decentralized identity. In vulnerable versions of indy-node, an attacker can max out the number of client connections allowed by the ledger, leaving the ledger unable to be used for its intended purpose...

Responsible Disclosure for Cryptocurrency Security

Stewart Baker discusses why the industry-norm responsible disclosure for software vulnerabilities fails for cryptocurrency software. Why can’t the cryptocurrency industry solve the problem the way the software and hardware industries do, by patching and updating security as flaws are found? Two...

Remote code execution

Indy Node is the server portion of a distributed ledger purpose-built for decentralized identity. In versions 1.12.4 and prior, the pool-upgrade request handler in Indy-Node allows an improperly authenticated attacker to remotely execute code on nodes within the network. The pool-upgrade request...

PYSEC-2022-265

Indy Node is the server portion of a distributed ledger purpose-built for decentralized identity. In versions 1.12.4 and prior, the pool-upgrade request handler in Indy-Node allows an improperly authenticated attacker to remotely execute code on nodes within the network. The pool-upgrade request...

CVE-2022-31020

Hyperledger Indy-Node (server portion of the Indy ledger) contains a remote code execution vulnerability in the pool-upgrade request handler for versions ≤ 1.12.4. An attacker could remotely execute code on nodes in the network due to improper authentication of pool-upgrade transactions. Indy-Nod...

CVE-2022-31020 Remote code execution in Indy's NODE_UPGRADE transaction

Indy Node is the server portion of a distributed ledger purpose-built for decentralized identity. In versions 1.12.4 and prior, the pool-upgrade request handler in Indy-Node allows an improperly authenticated attacker to remotely execute code on nodes within the network. The pool-upgrade request...

[Security Nation] Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon on Nmap, the Open-Source Security Scanner

!\Security Nation\ Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon on Nmap, the Open-Source Security Scannerhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/securitynationlogo-2.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon, author of the widely used open-source Nmap Security Scanner. On...

FBI Warns Investors to Take Precautions with Decentralized Financial Platforms

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI on Monday warned of cyber criminals increasingly exploiting flaws in decentralized finance DeFi platforms to plunder cryptocurrency. "The FBI has observed cyber criminals exploiting vulnerabilities in the smart contracts governing DeFi platforms to ste...

BitTorrent Protocol

BitTorrent is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing P2P, which enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet in a decentralized manner. This protection can be used to detect the BitTorrent Protocol handshake, and with the packet capture, allows to extrac...

If Bitcoiners Want Bitcoin To Make It Big, They Need DeFi

By Owais Sultan In the last couple of years, decentralized finance and Bitcoin have exploded into mainstream awareness. From 2020 to… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: If Bitcoiners Want Bitcoin To Make It Big, They Need DeFi...